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Re:Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry by skywhopper on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:42AM (#21345744)
If you are self-hosting the product, you can control changes to the environment. If you are pulling in third-party scripts on the fly, then that control is gone.
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Re:Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry by chrisseaton on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:56AM (#21345891)
Ah I guess the real problem is 'on the fly'.
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Re:Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry by TeMPOraL on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:38AM (#21353285)
The problem is that the resource the URL points to resides on a system that's neither under your control, not under counterparty's.
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